Popular holiday destination Under the threat of volcano capable of ‘really destructive eruption’

A leading European holiday destination can be threatened for a volcano eruption.

Santorini, an island in the southern Aegean Sea, is one of them GreeceThe leading holiday destinations, which attract around 3.4 million tourists every year.

But the dreamy island was first made by a volcano eruption. And a series of earthquakes Earlier this year, scientists wondered whether the next eruption of the volcano could threaten the island.

While the last volcanic eruption in Santorini was in 1950, scientists told the BBC There was a ‘period of unrest’ already in 2012.

Professor Isobel Yeo, a volcanic expert from Great -Britain in Great -Britain, is currently investigating the underwater volcanoes of Santorini.

The expert is one of a team on board British Royal Research Ship, The Discovery, looking at Santorini’s Caldera.

Yeo told BBC News that the marine volcanoes ‘are capable of really large, really destructive eruptions’.

The scientist added: ‘We are sugged in a sense of false safety if you are used to small eruptions and the volcano that act safely.

Santorini, an island in the southern Aegean Sea, is one of the leading holiday destinations of Greece that attracts more than three million tourists a year

The dreamy island was first created by a volcano eruption and a series of earthquakes earlier this year, scientists wondered whether the next eruption could threaten the island

The scientist said: “This research is important because it will inform the locals how active the volcanoes are, and it will map the area that will be forbidden to gain access during an eruption”

“You assume that the following will be the same – but it might not be.”

The volcano of Santorini is not expected Believe it is only a matter of time.

The scientists are currently creating a 3D card that they hope will help to predict when an eruption can take place.

Professor Nomikou, a member of the Greece emergency group of Greece, said she was inspired to become geologist after hearing stories about outbursts from the past of her grandfather.

The scientist said: “This research is very important because it will inform the locals how active the volcanoes are, and it will map the area that will be forbidden to gain access during an eruption.”

Santorini fled almost half of the 11,000 inhabitants of the island during the earthquakes earlier this year.

The tourist administration of Greece has said that the island is now open and works as normal, after it has received the ‘green light’ from scientists.